[B-Greek] Acts 3.26 EN TWi APOSTREFEIN - instrumental or concurrenttime

Mark Lightman lightmanmark at yahoo.com
Fri Feb 11 13:47:30 EST 2011


<Also, if hEKASTON had been the subject I would have expected the appropriate 
verb to be the middle APOSTREFESQAI.>

That's a good point, Carl, but BDAG says the active can be intransitive, "turn 
away from something, APO TINOS. 


 Mark L



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From: Carl Conrad <cwconrad2 at mac.com>
To: Iver Larsen <iver_larsen at sil.org>
Cc: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
Sent: Fri, February 11, 2011 11:24:49 AM
Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Acts 3.26 EN TWi APOSTREFEIN - instrumental or 
concurrenttime


On Feb 11, 2011, at 9:37 AM, Iver Larsen wrote:

> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Smith" <rbs58 at comcast.net>
> To: <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
> Sent: 11. februar 2011 16:11
> Subject: [B-Greek] Acts 3.26 EN TWi APOSTREFEIN - instrumental or 
>concurrenttime
> 
> 
>> All translations I looked at, take the construction as instrumental and 
>>hEKASTON as objective, but it seems to me that the issue in the context of Acts 
>>3 is the decision of each wrt Jesus as the Suffering Messiah and the prophet 
>>like Moses.
>> 
>> With the present tense used for EULOGOUNTA and for APOSTREFEIN, could it not be 
>>intended for the EN TWi construction to refer to concurrent time?
>> 
>> "He sent him who blesses you when each turns"
>> 
>> Verse 23 provides a suggestion as to what may happen in the event one does not 
>>turn.
>> 
>> Given the general context, I understand PONHRIWN and hAMARTIAS to refer to the 
>>decision about Jesus as the Christ who suffers, rather than more general idea of 
>>sin in a sinner's life.
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Richard
> 
> I don't know why you think of the suffering of Christ. We have an accusative 
>with infinitive, so hEKASTON could function as subject or as object:
> 
> ὑμῖν πρῶτον ἀναστήσας ὁ θεὸς τὸν παῖδα αὐτοῦ ἀπέστειλεν αὐτὸν εὐλογοῦντα ὑμᾶς 
>ἐν τῷ ἀποστρέφειν ἕκαστον ἀπὸ τῶν πονηριῶν ὑμῶν.
> hUMIN PRWTON ANASTHSAS hO QEOS TON PAIDA AUTOU APESTEILEN AUTON EULOGOUNTA 
>hUMAS EN TWi APOSTREFEIN hEKASTON APO TWN PONHRIWN hUMWN.
> 
> God having raised up (as the prophet from Deut 18:15,18 - it refers to 
>incarnation rather than resurrection) first for you (Jews) he sent his 
>servant/child? blessing you in/by turning each one from your-plural sins.
> 
> If hEKASTON had been the subject I would have expected AUTOU rather than hUMWN 
>(each one turning from his sins as the two versions quoted by Mark have it). 
>That plural may be why most English versions take it as the object: turning each 
>one of you people away from your-plural sins. Of course, it requires that they 
>are willing to be turned, but that is beyond the grammar. (Vaticanus dropped 
>hUMWN, but no ms seems to have an AUTOU.)

Also, if hEKASTON had been the subject I would have expected the appropriate 
verb to be the middle APOSTREFESQAI.


Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)



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